Speakers Bureau - Laffit Pincay Jr.

Pincay began his riding career in his native Panama but came to race in the United States in 1966. Laffit Pincay, Jr. was voted the prestigious George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award in 1970 that honors a rider whose career and personal conduct exemplifies the very best example of participants in the sport of thoroughbred racing. He has won the Eclipse Award for Outstanding Jockey on four occasions and was the United States' leading jockey seven times.

With his 8,834th win, on December 10, 1999 at Hollywood Park in California aboard Irish Nip, he broke the career victory record previously held by Bill Shoemaker.

He won the Kentucky Derby in 1984 and three consecutive Belmont Stakes between 1982 and 1984.

At the time of his retirement (in April 2003, due to injury), he remained horse racing's winningest jockey, with 9,530 career victories.

Pincay was inducted into the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame in 1975.

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